These guys have strong (or at least reasonably strong) vision tools to help you find and track your opponent. Vision advantage matters a lot in this mode because of the increased coordination.
Grey, Kaigin, PuP, Titus, Dr. Finn, Meridian, Elle (mod), Asana (mod).

Good Lancers

These guys are just plain good. They don’t get a ton of mention above, but they’re just extremely good overall.
Blackburn, Celeste, Lockwood, Phaedra, Quark

Overall:

I would recommend choosing a balanced composition to start out. For example, pick one vision lancer, one defensive lancer, one alley-oop lancer, and one proactive lancer. Bonus if one lancer can do multiple things! So, great choices would be Grey, Gremo, Aurora, PuP, Rampart, Meridian, Juno, and (ugh) Quark.

The comps I will be playing (yes, the secret’s out, boys!) will be:

Phaedra – Grey/Celeste/Blackburn – Dr. Finn/Su-Ren — solid overall comp, lots of healing and vision. Su-Ren and Grey is a nice combo, too.
Asana – Celeste – Khita – Aurora — also solid overall comp with healing and vision.
Kaigin/PuP/Rask – Lockwood – Gremo – Helio — my take on a wombo combo.
PuP – Juno – Meridian – Orion — very defensive and stable composition.
Rampart – Gremo/Lockwood/Nix/Oz?/Zuki – Aurora — very much an alley-oop style with Rampart’s pull, but can also protect the squishy backline with his wall while Aurora tosses heals.
Quark + anything lol — do insane healing and win the game. We’ll see what the Quark changes are — apparently he’s being tweaked a bit with the coming patch! I wouldn’t be surprised to see my suggestion adopted (moving a few points of healing from his defensive tether to shield instead).

Note that I try pretty hard in the above compositions not to reuse lancers. I think it’s cool to have a lot of lancers baked into comps! Can anyone come up with a good Oz comp? I have some thoughts (possibly the Rufflebucket comp — I’ve seen Rize Gaming do this), but I don’t play Oz very well. Paging RhodeXLX or Bhodi.

Next week, I’ll post some updates on how the game mode is going so far, and discuss overall strategy, vision and openers.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this game mode and what you’re excited to try!